The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-09-09
VARIOUS ITEMS.

The balloon for the Paris exhibition of 1880
will carry 100 persons
Over 100000 fishpoles are imported into
this country annually by ono firm.
There was an increased area of no less than
76, ,9SS acres under cultivation in Ireland last
year.
Commodore Mutt, who rivaled Tom Thumb
ss dw;irf some years ago, is selling tickets
for n dime museum III Boston.
Tho Washington Critic says that probably
half the present population of the United
States were born since tho war.
During the recent period of extreme heat
Philadelphia street car horses We're given
shower baths. with excellent results.
James S. Richardson, Of New Orleans the
largest cotton planter in the world, has this
year 3S GOO acres in cotton and 1000 acres i'll
corn.
| 1t is said that the convict population of the
| United States, not counting the rogues out
, of Jail, is 64,349, or one to every $50 inhabi-
| tants.
There were 7,55S photographers in the
| United States in 1870 and $3.50 i'll 1880 There
are now about 900 persons i'll the photo
graphing business i'll this country.
| The khan of Khiva has founded Russian
school i'll his capital, where eight Khivan
boys of good birth and between the ages of II
and IA learn the Russian language Mt the
khans expense.
A musician in Washington says that he is
! prepared to prove that the Boulanger march
is nothing more nor less than the "Marguerita
Polka" written about fifteen years ago in
honor of the Italian queen
! The census of paupers in London, exclusive
of lunatics i'll asyl,ms and vagrants, for the
first week of July shows: Indoor, 52,S16;
outdoor, 81, ,o29; total, S7,s45; against s3, $40
for the corresponding week of 1856 These
are rather startling figures.
Cincinnati is to have monument to the
i memory of President Harrison. Artists are
now at work OH the designs, and selection
will soon be made The statue will be un-
veiled in the fall of 1855, OH tho centennial
anniversary of the city OF Cincinnati.
Rev. Marcus Alden Talman, an Episcopal
rector of Mauch Chunk, Pa, has a chair
which belonged to the Priscilla courted by
John Alden for Miles Standish when she said,
"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
He is descendant of John Alden, while
Thomas Lansford Foster, one of the vestry-
men Of his church, is II descendant of Miles
Standsh.
1t is not generally Known that in Ethiopia
a people numbering about 100000 have the
Old Testament III Ethiopic version and still
adhere strictly to the Mosaic ceremonies and
laws. They are the children of Hebrew i'm
migrants who in the time of the great dis
person settled in Abyssinia and married
wives of that nation.
Heels OH the shoes first originated with the
Pcrsians A person of low stature was re-
galde.l as nn object Of contempt, and there
fore the heel was the happy thought of some
one of the nnfortunates, thus providing by
art that which nature denied But, as in
modern fashions, it was carried to excess,
persons who were already too tall to look
well adopting them because they were the
"style."
They have had the jubilee fever very strong
i'll New Zealand The Herald of that colony
contains abundant evidence of the fact.
Here is one advertisement: "Wanted-Two
jubilee ladies want two jubilee husbands.
Apply 25 Queen street." Here is another:
"Wanted-Jubilee wives, husbands, house
nlaids, mattresses, housekeepers, barmaids,
and general servants can be had for the ask
ing A. Mcleod, 25 Queen street."
For the first time in many years cabin
passengers on all ocean steamship were
landed recently at Castle Garden. They
came in on the Chateau Margaux from Bor-
tlcaux and were in hurry to get etashore. As
there is young army Of customs inspectors
stationed i'll the Garden they were accommo-
dated. They didn't seem to mind the close
proximity of their laces and good clothes to
the soiled immigrants, in fact some seemed to
enjoy the curious scerc.